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Law off my back and keep me out of trouble, the promise i made my mama ♪ if i don't do that i don't know how to hustle ♪ ♪ hundred grand smoke it like a chimney, better hope before i get a chance to spend it ♪ ♪ if i, if i had a hundred grand, lord, i might go off the deep end and go blow it all this weekend ♪ >> hey, school, baby. >> hey. i know. >> at the santa rosa correctional institution in florida, dreams of what could be run through the imaginations of many. but less so for those who have already spent decades on the inside. >> to be honest with you, probably looking at prob...

We are talking about ben ghazi, right? leach here, why are they talking about ben ghazi? this is a great example, david. if they had done what lanny davis said they had done, just put the documents out, we wouldn't be talking about this this morning but this is a perfect example in washington, d.c. how you handle the screw-ups. >> why do they think you can hide anything? >> e-mail! >> i think part of the point is that nobody has answered the substantive questions about what they were thinking and when, why they made certain decisions or did not make certain decisions and i think the talking po...

Define who was attacking. so i think that is a red herring. you know, the last words of the dying ambassador. to hold that against the state department. i do think there were screw-ups along the way. >> afterwards? >> afterwards in the way the intelligence community and the white house, all these things are vetted. they're rewritten. it's clear petraeus went and said one thing and then -- >> i understand. >> the talking points were changed. >> this is my political analysis. you don't have to buy it. i notice all these attempts to smear somebody, generally speaking, what they do is they say leg...

They believe that in the weeks before a major -- you know, a presidential election, where president obama and team were claiming that al qaeda had been diminished, that there was an effort to white wash or clean the talking points to make it appear less a terror attack and more spontaneous. >> was there a move by the assistant secretary for public affairs at state to say there wasn't terrorist or change that? was there any evidence anything was changed for any reason? >> no, all the evidence has been that it was changed in the intelligence community and general clapper took responsibility for ...

Populations of muslims in ways militants have failed to do. none other than retired general stanley mcchrystal had this to say about american drone strikes in an interview, quote, although to the united states a drone strike seems to have very little risk and very little pain, at the receiving end it feels like war. americans have got to understand that. if we were to use our technological capabilities carelessly, i don't think we do, but there's always the danger you will, we should not be upset when someone responds with their equivalent, which is a suicide bomb in central park. in a week wh...